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- Prisoners at Mauthausen carry the coffins of their dead comrades past the barracks enroute to the cemetery on a daily basis. This was the final result of serious wounds and diseases like tuberculosis.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is a photograph of an Italian prisoner at Mauthausen after the signing of the Armistice with Austria-Hungary and his release from captivity.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is a letter and envelope from a French musician incarcerated in the prison camp in Stendal. He sent the letter on 15 December 1915. Note the lack of a postage stamp on the envelope; prisoners could send their correspondence free of charge through the international mails.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of Russian and Romanian prisoners converse with Italian POW's at the barbed-wire fence in the prison camp at Hajmaskar. The one-story wooden barrack stands on top of a small hill behind the Russian and Romanian prisoners served as the commandant's office.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Polish officers pose for a photograph in the prison courtyard outside their quarters at Marmosa-Sziget in 1918.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of prisoners prepare to shower in the shower room at Nagymegyer. Serbian prisoners operate the flow of hot water in the back of the room while a Hungarian soldier stands to the right.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A labor detachment of Serbian, Russian, and Romanian prisoners drag a wagon through the streets of Mauthausen, under the supervision of an Austrian non-commissioned officer, enroute to the prison camp.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This colorful wooden Russian soldier raises his hands in surrender; it was built by workers in Vilna in Lithuania, a region of the Russian Empire recently occupied by the German Army.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The acting commandant, Graf von Taube, stands to the left with Mr. Powell, one of the British captains in the prison compound at Ruhleben.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The outbreak of fire in a crowded barrack was always a serious concern for German authorities. As a result, prisoners practiced fire escape drills on a regular basis. At Traunstein, civilian internees could escape from the third floor of their barrack by means of a canvas chute or by ladders while the camp fire brigade would combat the blaze. German officers supervise the exercise.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
